What are your thoughts on the allegations against Nouman Ali Khan? Personally I think it smells like a whole lot of bs. So far no proof has been given what-so-ever. It's claimed that it's to keep the details of the "victims" private, but what then is the point of making this whole thing public before a legal verdict has been reached, or a confession issued? We're expected to determine facts based on personalities. So-and-so is trusted so his allegation must be true, and it's been corroborated by another so-and-so. But if you choose to give NAK the benefit of the doubt instead then you're accused of just following personalities, go figure. A lot of fulaan but not a lot of burhaan.
Then there's the issue of the allegations themselves. What exactly is being claimed here? Basically, adult women being impressed by his fame consented to sexual relations. This then supposedly makes them victims and he a sexual predator. But this is rejected because we're talking about adults, not five year olds. So either we say that this is nonsensical, or we say that adult muslim women are mentally deficient and devoid of agency, and should in fact be locked up at home to protect them. This latter is really the only logical conclusion should we accept the validity of the allegations, since if middle aged muslim women can't even take a class without losing themselves entirely, then what should they be doing outside?
Of course the objection to this is that well NAK is in a position of power so this is abuse, like in the case of college professors having sexual relations with students. But this is rejected for the following reasons:
>NAK is famous because of his audience. He has not been placed into power by any governing or academic authority. Why aren't we accusing every single movie star for being rapists? Is their fame not relevant to them getting with women? Of course it is. Their female fans would be overjoyed to sleep with their favorite actor. But we don't want to admit that muslim women are in fact women as well, and that we're dealing with muslim fangirls.
>In the case of college professors they have a say in the student's future. Not so much for NAK. He can't promise them a degree for sleeping with him. So as I said above, we're dealing with fangirls, not 19 year old college students just trying to get their degree.
>All women have power/influence over men simply for being women. One could just as well say that women are using their female charms to seduce him. In fact, had the genders been reversed, everyone would be laughing themselves silly at the idea that men would have been victims. So again we see the double standards.
I'd also like to draw attention to some of the details laid out in Mozaffar's facebook post. Of course as mentioned above, no actual evidence of any sexual crimes are provided, most of the post is just fear-mongering. If there were any evidence then someone would be in jail right now.
He writes
>In a meeting with the above scholars and myself, Nouman agreed to stop public speeches until further notice, to get professional and religious counseling, and to cease all contact with those women.
and continues
>This brings us to where we are today. Nouman has now broken his agreement with us
So what kind of shady contract was this exactly? From the above it seems that the contract entailed that NAK had to stop his teaching, or else they would expose him to the public as a sexual predator(without proof), which is what they're trying to do now. This certainly sounds a lot like blackmail if you ask me. Very suspicious.
The conclusion I come to is that there's something more going on in the american dawah scene that we're left out of. Reading the allegations you'll see that VERY little detail about the abuses themselves are actually provided. Why? Because they know it sounds freaking ridiculous to call someone a sexual predator for having consensual relations with 30 year old women. So instead we get vague words and a whole lot of fear-mongering.